And the Court has also narrowed the application of the so-called exclusionary rule by which evidence improperly seized by police may not be used in court.

Justice John Marshall Harlan II wrote for the majority that the union records had been improperly seized.

Suppressing the improperly seized evidence would lead to a new trial under the principle of the fruit of the poisonous tree.

Then, as the trial began, the defense lawyers claimed that large amounts of evidence had been improperly seized and, therefore, should be excluded.

On November 3, 1987, six organizations affiliated with LaRouche argued that their documents were seized improperly during the October 1986 search.

The license dispute comes after federal courts ruled that the government had improperly seized NextWave's licenses and resold them.